Spam Annihilator
Have you ever been a member of a Telegram, Whatsapp or Discord group and had to deal with annoying spam bots waltzing in and posting content? I have...
Development
Software engineering insights, technical write-ups, and documentation of past development projects.
Disable Gutenberg junk
I've been playing around with the new Gutenberg plugin for WordPress. It's direction is great and I really love it, but it has an annoying problem.
Foot in your ass!
Whilst perusing the bitchy rants on WP Tavern, I came across an excellent recommendation from Samuel Wood (aka Otto) for an alternativeto the Hello Dolly plugin. It's called "Hello Samuel L Jackson" and it loads some excellent philosophical words shared by a great poet.
10 years since my first WordPress plugin
It is 10 years today since I released my first ever WordPress plugin. It’s been a blast, and I’ll probably release more in the future too. That first...
WooCommerce default number of products
I recently needed to set the default number of products selected in WooCommerce to 1. I created a plugin to achieve this.
Simple 404 Logger
When someone asks me to setup 404 logging in WordPress, I go on the hunt for a simple plugin which just does logging of the 404 errors and nothing else.
New plugin for editing bbPress author names
I had a problem which involved editing bbPress post names. So I created a plugin to allow forum admins to easily change the author of any bbPress post.
Using WP CLI to run Cron jobs on multisite networks
I wrote a simple bash script which grabs all sites on a multisite network, then loops through and runs all the due WP Cron tasks for each individual site.
Audio Meta Box plugin
I've created a new WordPress plugin. This one is fairly basic, and simply used for adding an audio file uploader to your site. You can read about it more on it's plugin page.
Sticky sidebars
I find that sticky sidebars are awkward to implement. There are plenty of examples out there, but I find most have problems.
Disable updates, keep notices
Using DISALLOW_FILE_MODS disables WordPress update notices. Jay Dansand of Lawrence University has solved this via an elegant little plugin.
Cap cam
I am the hipster of helmet cams, but now I have "cap cam" :) I just sticky taped my camera to my running cap to test out the Microsoft Hyperlapse software.